Pixel Scroll 10/31 Standlee’s Instant Summons

(1) The title of Jeb Kinnison’s review encapsulates his opinion — “’Tomorrowland’: Tragic Misfire”.

Having seen mixed reviews, I waited until Tomorrowland came out on cheaper streaming services. Directed and mostly written by Brad Bird, auteur of brilliant work like Iron Giant and The Incredibles, the previews looked promising — a story about the shiny visions of the technological future we had as kids in the 1960s, and a world where they actually happened.

(2) An old b&w photo of a scientist controlling waldos to diaper a baby doll is one of the relics in the Vault of the Atomic Space Age.

(3) William Shatner tells how his face was used for the mask that Halloween film franchise killer Michael Myers wore.

(4) “Jim Burns’ Halloween Reverie: Then and Now” from last year, at the local New York CBS station’s website.

Twenty-five years ago, youngsters at my door could see through the screen to a life-sized Superman and Batman that were just past me, in the living room.

On another night, every window of my home was adorned with special Halloween themed balloons, the merry Mylar reaching high into the October sky.

For another year, a wide assortment of latex masks of classic  Hollywood monsters (a wolfman, a mummy, Planet of the Apes’ Dr. Zaius and  creatures from The Outer Limits)–an amazing collection I had somehow acquired–peered out from those portals, gazing upon a lawn filled with a virtual galaxy of giant pumpkin lawn bags!

(5) How big did you say those pumpkin bags were, Jim? A giant inflatable pumpkin got away the other day in Arizona….

Diego Ramirez captured video of the 25-foot-tall jack o’lantern blowing around in traffic after it broke free of its straps at the Peoria Sports Complex.

“I was so shocked to see that it was like bouncing like a basketball all the way down the road,” Patrick Sparkes of Big AZ Promotions, the company that owns the decoration, told KPNX-TV.

The company said the 350-pound pumpkin broke free from its straps with the help of strong winds.

“We showed up and it wasn’t there and we spent the last 40 minutes driving around looking for it,” Sparkes said.

There were no injuries from the pumpkin’s dash for freedom, but there was some damage done to streetlamps.

(6) The Addams Family: The Broadway Musical evidently has been around for years, but it’s news to me!

THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before — keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

 

(7) The SJW viewpoint strikes again! A. J. Jacobs told NPR host Scott Simon some famous monsters aren’t as horrible as you think. I think I hear “Officer Krupke” in the background…

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Misunderstood, misunderstood.

JACOBS: Misunderstood – that’s what I’m here to do is trying to salvage the reputation of some of these Halloween monsters. So yes, Frankenstein I think gets a really raw deal in the reputation department. We all think of Frankenstein’s monster as this monosyllabic idiot from the movies. But actually, in Mary Shelley’s original novel from 1818, Frankenstein’s monster was more of a sensitive intellectual type. He read Plutarch and Goethe. He was more Brooklyn hipster and less unfrozen caveman.

(8) A mysterious castle, a deserted village and things that go bump in the night are all in a day’s work for a TODAY team on the hunt for Dracula — “Take a Trip ‘Behind the Screams’ in Transylvania”

(9) Today In History

  • October 31, 1926Harry Houdini dies. Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, dies of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital. Twelve days before, Houdini had been talking to a group of students after a lecture in Montreal when he commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows. Suddenly, one of the students punched Houdini twice in the stomach. The magician hadn’t had time to prepare, and the blows ruptured his appendix. He fell ill on the train to Detroit, and, after performing one last time, was hospitalized. Doctors operated on him, but to no avail. The burst appendix poisoned his system, and on October 31 he died.
  • October 31, 2001 — Lovecraft adaptation Dagon makes its theatrical premiere in Spain.

(10) Today’s Birthday Boy

  • October 31, 1961 — Peter Jackson is born on Halloween in Wellington, New Zealand.

(11) The photo comes from “Susan Beatrice Recycles Old Watch Parts Into Intricately Detailed Steampunk Scultptures” on EarthPorm, but here full gallery is here. Amazing stuff.

recycled-watch-parts-sculptures-vintage-antique-susan-beatrice-36

Beatrice’s creations bring boring old gears and machinery to life. She has the ability to turn ratchets and other tiny technical parts into a lively mouse, seahorse or fairy. The more you look at her varied artwork the more you wonder what this woman can’t do… as it appears she can make everything out of anything.

(12) How badly do you want to be one of the first people to see the new Star Wars movie? Air France can help you out.

Lines will form at the crack of dawn on December 18 as die-hard fans set out to snag the best seats to see Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens in theaters.

But some very lucky trans-Atlantic plane passengers will get the jump on them.

In what seems like a ploy to rope super-fans into buying very expensive plane tickets, Air France will be letting passengers watch the much-anticipated flick two days before its official release, on December 16.

The French airline is teaming up with EuropaCorp CINEMAS to offer the advance screenings for passengers on four Paris-bound flights, AF083 from San Francisco to Paris, AF065 from Los Angeles, AF011 from New York and AF009 from New York.

[Thanks to James H. Burns, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day, Soon Lee.]

178 thoughts on “Pixel Scroll 10/31 Standlee’s Instant Summons

  1. 1. Twilight Zone
    2. The Prisoner
    3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    4. Star Trek: The Original Series

  2. @Jim Henley: Traitor to the Imperium! 😉 BTW thanks for doing these, and I’m sorry I missed a lot of it. ;-(

  3. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Twilight Zone (2). I tried several times to get into B5, but it just never did it for me.

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1). I actively dislike old Who, and I love the Prisoner.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1). A little tougher. New Who is fun, but it’s no Buffy.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1). Aargh, this one was a really tough call. I think that Farscape, at its best, may have been slightly better than TOS at its best, but overall, I think TOS comes out slightly ahead.

  4. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic]

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Doctor Who [New]

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Farscape

  5. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)
    (Trailing Region)

  6. It’s 8418, and I have finally found my way through PayPal’s menus to create a Donate button. Next up: checking out Patreon.

    FILE 770 LIVE-ACTION TV TOURNAMENT AND BRACKETS – ELITE EIGHT

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)
    (Trailing Region)

  7. Coreward Region
    1. Twilight Zone

    Spinward Region
    2. abstain

    Rimward Region
    3. abstain

    Trailing Region
    4. Star Trek: The Original Series

  8. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)

    Protest vote for Slings and Arrows, dammit.

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)
    (Trailing Region)

  9. All the forehead cloths I didn’t buy in the previous rounds are now coming home to roost.

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)

    Really tough. Both were groundbreaking, both had some amazing heights and some fairly low depths. I’m going to go with the one I experienced as it happened, instead of the one that was before I was born.

    (And I’m voting against my bracket sheet here! I hope there’s a decent regard for the history of TV SF out there.)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    Now see, if TNG had had the decency to knock out The Prisoner I could vote my bracket sheet with a clear conscience. As it is I need another forehead cloth.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)

    Another matchup with some really high highs and low lows. Both shows I love. A forehead cloth, my kingdom for a forehead cloth….

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)

    Thanks for the respite. That one was easy.

  10. Now this hurts. A lot.
    FILE 770 LIVE-ACTION TV TOURNAMENT AND BRACKETS – ELITE EIGHT

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Original Trek (1)
    Farscape (2)

    Tie! Dangit. Both special in an apples and oranges way

    (Trailing Region)

    7271 words for nanowrimo — (just as well I started fast, I may be traveling on business the week after next)

  11. FILE 770 LIVE-ACTION TV TOURNAMENT AND BRACKETS – ELITE EIGHT

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)
    (Trailing Region)

  12. Elite Eight, is it? Very well.

    1. Twilight Zone.
    2. Woof. Gotta go with The Prisoner, but that hurt.
    3. Buffy.
    4. TOS.

    So let it be written, so let it be done.

  13. 1. Twilight Zone
    (Coreward Region)

    2. The Prisoner
    (Spinward Region)

    There are things I would vote over The Prisoner, and I’m surprised they haven’t already popped up. The luck of the dice?

    3. Doctor Who [New]
    (Rimward Region)

    4. Star Trek: The Original Series
    (Trailing Region)

  14. 2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series

  15. 1. Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. The Prisoner (1)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    (Rimward Region)

    4. Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    (Trailing Region)

  16. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    (Trailing Region)

  17. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    The Prisoner, being shorter, was more consistent, but I grew up with the Doctor.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    Forehead cloth time.

    Both shows have moments of pure brilliance, and moments of falling apart. While this season of Who has seemed to me to be a rise in quality despite the bit with Missy at the start, I think Buffy held it together better on the whole.

    …as long as I don’t think about the Buffy Season 8 comic, which started well then went…. places.

    And if I think about Blink and Midnight and Vincent and the Doctor too long, I’ll change my mind. (Tries to concentrate on Hush and the Body and the Gift. And Once More, with Feeling. And…)

    Also, I wrote Buffy references into a book.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    abstain. I have yet to see Farscape and too many people of taste I mostly share liked it.

  18. FILE 770 LIVE-ACTION TV TOURNAMENT AND BRACKETS – ELITE EIGHT

    Now the pain really begins.

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)

    I never got hooked on B5, so this choice is not that hard for me. TZ, though, is in a class by itself. It was incredibly innovative for its time and influenced TV programming everafter. There are so many classic, original, timeless stories and themes executed to the best ability of the time – To Serve Man, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, The Hitch-Hiker, The Midnight Sun, It’s A Good Life…and on and on and on.

    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    Abstain

    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)

    Have never been a huge Who fan, not a not-fan either. Mostly “meh!” Buffy grabbed me much more.

    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)

    I’m more voting for what I knew and loved. Barely watched Farscape and it didn’t grab.

    (Trailing Region)

  19. It’s 6267! Sending this back 4252 years. The comments are finally doing the time travel thing for me. I see the sailboat!

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)
    The Obstinate Show sits in a room with Babylon 5. The Obstinate Show has set a bomb to go off.

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    6 and [spoiler] beats 1-7.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region)
    Concentrates.


    In which our heroine sacrifices herself: The Gift vs. Turn Left. Tie.
    In which our villains are silent: Blink vs. Hush. +1 NuWho.
    In which a lack of underscoring and long takes are used to drive home the pain of real death: The Body vs.… nope. +2 Buffy.
    Musical episode: Once More With Feeling vs.… +4 Buffy.
    NuWho has many individually brilliant episodes, but if you look at Who’s season 3, or the latter half of season 6, or season 7, things start to break down. Buffy by a very painful nose.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)

  20. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)

    Winter is Coming, um, I mean Doctor Trek versus Star Who is coming..

  21. Babylon 5
    The Prisoner
    Doctor Who (new)
    ST:TOS

    I’ll take these four over most of what’s on TV now

  22. In which our heroine sacrifices herself: The Gift vs. Turn Left. Tie.
    In which our villains are silent: Blink vs. Hush. +1 NuWho.
    In which a lack of underscoring and long takes are used to drive home the pain of real death: The Body vs.… nope. +2 Buffy.
    Musical episode: Once More With Feeling vs.… +4 Buffy.

    In which a character played by Anthony Head works in a school:
    Most Buffy Episodes vs School Reunion +1 NuWho becuase Buffy didn’t have a robot dog and Sarah Jane Smith 🙂

  23. FILE 770 LIVE-ACTION TV TOURNAMENT AND BRACKETS – ELITE EIGHT

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Farscape (2)
    (Trailing Region)

    I have a feeling the results of 3 and 4 might make me extremely grumpy. Especially 4.

  24. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3) – Ultimately the sheer breadth of Old Who has to outweigh a single brilliant idea.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1) – But NuWho drops the ball a bit too often to win out against a modern classic

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1) – despite how much fun Farscape was, not to mention some excellent subversions, TOS is just too important to go out.

  25. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    Easier than I thought that one.

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    The Prisoner was already old when I was growing up whereas Dr Who was there all the way.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    Not even an anti-New Who protest vote either.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Farscape (2)

    I’m your daddy! budda, budda, budda

  26. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Twilight Zone (2)

    Sorry, B5, but the Zone is more important to me.

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    Ow. Ow, ow, ow. And, ow. But there have to be painful choices at this stage, I guess. I hovered over this a long time, but I just couldn’t backspace over Doctor Who, and I just about could over The Prisoner. So there we are. And ow.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Doctor Who [New] (2)

    Despite the dangers of a Who-versus-Who deathmatch in rounds to come (I’m now picturing Matt Smith wrestling with Peter Davison in green jelly. You’re welcome), I’m sticking with the Who, here. That is, the Who, and not The Who, because that would just be silly.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)

    Sorry, Farscape, but there is no contest for me here.

  27. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Twilight Zone (2)

    The only match this round with none of my nominees in it. But also a show I liked against a show I didn’t much care for.

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)

    Doctor Who had its moments, but I’ll take *any* single episode of The Prisoner, even the least, over *any* single episode of classic Who, even the best.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    At some point — either when Buffy loses despite my vote for it, or when it finally reaches the point that I vote against it — I will write about my anger towards the show. But for now, this comment is still reserved for my joy in it.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Farscape (2)

    This one is the only match this round which contains two of my nominees, and is the only one that gives me even slight pause. Star Trek was more important; Star Trek was more innovative; Star Trek spawned more imitators; Star Trek started a media empire; Star Trek holds my childhood memories. Farscape is a better show. It’s probably going to lose, but it gets my vote here.

  28. Bracketsy:

    1. Twilight Zone

    2.The Prisoner

    4. Star Trek: The Original Series

    That didn’t hurt even a little. Possibly I’m still numb with all the loss.

  29. Last chance I will get to vote before leaving for Rome and going dark…

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Doctor Who [New] (2)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)

    Except for NuWho versus Buffy…all of those were painful.

  30. All right, take a deep breath and dive in.

    FILE 770 LIVE-ACTION TV TOURNAMENT AND BRACKETS – ELITE EIGHT

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    2. ROVERS
    abstain

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)

    There! That wasn’t painful, was it?

    (goes back to bed)

  31. Oh dear.
    FILE 770 LIVE-ACTION TV TOURNAMENT AND BRACKETS – ELITE EIGHT

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region) The one man’s vision takes it, but it was hard, so hard. I saw all the early Who as they aired. Perhaps there was just too much to judge the whole.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region) I’m very fond of bits of nu who, Buffy less so.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)
    (Trailing Region) Tomorrow I may decide otherwise.

  32. FILE 770 LIVE-ACTION TV TOURNAMENT AND BRACKETS – ELITE EIGHT

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)
    Twilight Zone (2)
    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)
    (Spinward Region)

    Difficult, but IMO The Prisoner holds up better. Of course, it also has a lot fewer episodes. Plus, The Masque of Mandragora is the one Doctor Who ep that looks like a Prisoner ep.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
    Doctor Who [New] (2)
    (Rimward Region)

    More a vote against Buffy (I’ll never get the love) than one for the Doctor.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    Farscape (2)
    (Trailing Region)

  33. 1. Babylon 5 (1)

    2. The Prisoner (1)
    (Cloth please!)

    3. Doctor Who [New] (2)

    4. Star Trek: The Original Series (1)

  34. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Farscape (2)

  35. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Farscape (2)

  36. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Doctor Who [New] (2)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Abstain

  37. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Twilight Zone (2)
    Burgess Meredith breaking his glasses is the single most horrifying moment on television.

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
    By a nose

  38. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    (Coreward Region)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    (Spinward Region)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    (Rimward Region)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1)

  39. ELITE EIGHT
    1. Twilight Zone (2)
    2. The Prisoner (1)
    3. Doctor Who [New] (2). Can’t vote against both Whos at once, can I? Might have done if not for Ecclestone.
    4. Star Trek: The Original Series (1)

  40. Would all remaining TOS fans please report to the Aurora chamber, have a seat Scorpius will be with you shortly…

  41. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    Really difficult – but in the end, I do prefer character continuity and arcs.

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Doctor Who [New] (2)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Farscape (2)

  42. Forehead Cloths! Getcher ante-penultimate forehead cloths here! Available by the case and by the gross! Cool that fevered brow! Make a cozy nest under the table! We won’t judge!

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    2. ROVERS
    Doctor Who [Classic] (3)

  43. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN: I don’t think it’s funny. Never will… BABYLON 5

    2. ROVERS: eh… still kinda feeling abstainey here, since I never saw much of either one.

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO: Into every generation is born… BUFFY.

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK: My name is John Crichton… FARSCAPE, by the hair on a muppet’s nose.

  44. 1. HOW TO SERVE MAN
    Babylon 5 (1)

    2. ROVERS
    The Prisoner (1)

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK
    Farscape (2)

  45. Brackets

    1. HOW TO SERVE MAN

    Babylon 5

    2. ROVERS

    Doctor Who [Classic]

    3. ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    4. CGI IS FOR THE WEAK

    Farscape

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